Parching [verb]
Definition of Parching:
dry, burn
Sentence/Example of Parching:
May it parch their throats, as if they had been breathing the simoon!
Then, too, I will give you and Benny some corn to parch this evening, and you can have a nice time.
When this is done, care must be observed not to burn or parch the cuticle.
To Miss Parnell, Mr. Parch related the contents of his late client's will.
The fire that is but just sufficient to receive the noble sirloin (No. 19), will parch up a lighter joint.
Presently, he knew, thirst would begin to parch his throat and hunger to gnaw at him.
The natives catch them in small nets, when they come to devour their potato-vines, and parch them over the fire in an earthen pan.
They first parch and then pound it between two stones until it is reduced to a fine meal.
But you can't come in here and take our water for your own use, to supplant us, to parch our stock.
There was never a time when we did not have enough of corn, and plenty of wood with which to keep us warm and parch our corn.